Fishing near Sterling in Loudoun County, VA

Check Prices

• spinner bait, crank bait, grub
• trolled crankbaits - deep
• shad dart & spoon
• chicken livers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• chicken liver
  and a couple caught trolling cranks
• liver

Minnow Check Prices

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• last five came on crankbait in river section
• Caught the first three fish on spinner bait (including the biggest one) then made the switch over to a top water to take advantage of all the cicadas hitting the water.
• Caught 5 on a crankbait

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Spinner bait
• caught about half on a crankbait
• crankbait bite in the afternoon
• spinnerbait
• yellow and yellow/black spinner
• A worm with a 4"-6" tail works good during the afternoon. When the sun hits the tree line throw a buzzbait.

Streamer Check Prices

• Black Wolly Bugger
• Black Wolly bugger.
• Black wooly bugger

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

Dry Fly Check Prices

Terrestrial Check Prices

• Home made Hopper fly. On a #8 hook with earth tone foam and Deer hair.

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• 10 inch black worm, 10 inch pumpkinseed worm
• 10 inch black berkley

Hard Baits Check Prices

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Shad dart and spoon

Crankbait Check Prices

• Rapala Suspending Rattlin' Husky Jerk Tennessee shad 3"
  
  Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow Suspending 2" Blue/Silver
• Fished the same lures as the previous day. I think the 18" largemouth was the same one I caught the previous day. Same markings. Black mark on lower lip.
• Rapala yellow pearch
• also a grub and also topwater late in the day
• Topwater caught one early but the better bite was certainly on the crankbait. Also lost two decent fish.
• But some were caught on a spinnerbait and one or two on a grub
• about half of the fish came on soft plastics
• Mixed bag including a spinnerbait and a grub.
  
• trolled crankbait
• KVD square bill

Bass Jig Check Prices

• pig and jig

Wet Fly Check Prices

• Using a black, olive, and brown beaded wolly buggers
• Black, olive, and brown wolly buggers

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gizzard Shad were caught including th3 16 inch one above

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Panther Martin Spinner

Grub Check Prices

• Chartruse
• one or two came on crankbait
• one on a crankbait
• did catch one on a crankbait
• pumpkin seed

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

Live Baits Check Prices

• nightcarwers cut and stink bait all work well
• smaill shad,powerbait,nightcrawers,flys

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• shad rig
• all hickories
• Blue back Herring

Other Check Prices

• chicken livers
• umbrella rig
• chicken liver
• stink bait
• Shad dart and spoon. Almost all fish caught while trolling
• shad dart and spoon
• Shad dart